image ARCH 366/666 The Tectonic Articulation of Structure
Reading: Fall 2004
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Questions for Week 3
Briefly answer each question (1-3 sentences should do in most cases). Please type (or print neatly) and submit at the end of class on the date due.
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Due: September 13, 2003

Bush, "The Science of Penetration," The Streamlined Decade

1. Define laminar and turbulent flow. Which type of flow is equivalent to streamlined flow?

2. Cayley derives the ideal shape of an airship from what natural object?

3. Of the images shown in Chapter VII ("The Streamlined Moderne"), which of them demonstrate a relationship between structural forces and "streamlined" form?

Thompson, "On Form and Mechanical Efficiency," On Growth and Form

1. Thompson remarks that engineers often separate out tension from compression in order to "use separate modes of construction, or even different materials for each" (p.224). Would this tendency help or hinder a search for "tectonic" expression.

2. A section through a thigh-bone corresponds to the bone's moment diagram (p.227). Sketch a building structure, a part of a structure, or any other man-made object, in which form and moment-diagram also coincide. Comment.